Iraq: Climate Migrants Flee Iraq’s Parched Rural South, but Cities Offer No Refuge

Sep 7, 2022 | Louisa Loveluck and Mustafa Salim, Washington Post
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What happens when the land dries up? The world is facing this question; Iraq is already learning the answers. First the farmers and the fishermen try to stay. Then, one by one, they reach their breaking point. Migration starts slowly, but the exodus to towns and cities soon swells, and as temperatures rise, so do tensions.